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Why you'll love this role

StockX is seeking a Vice President of Product to lead the strategy, vision, and execution for our global Product and Product Design organizations. This executive will shape the future of our marketplace experience across Buyer, Seller, and operational journeys, owning cross-company product outcomes and driving high-impact, customer-centric innovation.

The VP will set long-term product strategy, align multi-product roadmaps to business goals, and ensure exceptional customer experiences across all platforms. Success requires deep e-commerce expertise (required), strong marketplace experience (preferred), and a proven ability to influence senior leaders, drive alignment, and deliver measurable business impact at scale.

The best candidate for this role will also play a critical part in defining how AI and emerging technologies are leveraged to accelerate product innovation, improve decision-making, and unlock new customer and business value.

What you'll do

• Strategic Leadership & Product Vision
  • Anticipate customer needs, market shifts, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies, including AI-driven product opportunities.
  • Define and lead a multi-year product vision aligned to company strategy and customer insights.
  • Shape a unified product portfolio across multiple product lines and prioritize at the enterprise level.
  • Balance the roadmap and strategic priorities to align with strong buy- and sell-side constituencies.
• Organizational Leadership
  • Lead and develop leaders across Product Management and Product Design.
  • Build a high-performance, outcomes-driven culture grounded in accountability, data fluency, and customer obsession.
  • Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous learning, including responsible adoption of AI-enabled workflows and tools.
  • Ensure clear priorities, ownership, and effective execution amid ambiguity
• Cross-Functional Influence
  • Align senior leaders across Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and business units on product strategy and goals.
  • Partner closely with Engineering and Data teams to translate new technologies into scalable, customer-facing product capabilities.
  • Drive clarity around execution plans and ensure a direct line from strategy to outcomes.
  • Communicate effectively with VP, C-suite, and Board audiences through clear storytelling and data-backed recommendations
• Customer & Business Impact
  • Ensure decisions reflect deep understanding of global customer needs.
  • Champion an outcome-focused product methodology grounded in experimentation, research, and A/B testing. 
  • Own the product organization's contribution to growth, conversion, liquidity, trust, retention, and profitability.
  • Leverage advanced analytics and intelligent systems to enhance personalization, discovery, pricing, trust & safety, and operational efficiency
• Execution & Delivery
  • Oversee end-to-end execution across multiple product lines with consistent quality and measurable results.
  • Streamline ways of working to support clear prioritization and fast, coordinated delivery.
  • Partner with Design, Analytics, and Customer Research to ensure cohesive, intuitive customer experiences.
• AI & Emerging Technology Leadership 
  • StockX is looking for a product leader who is forward-thinking and proactive in leveraging AI as a core product capability and a productivity force multiplier, not just a supporting tool.
  • Bring demonstrated experience building or evolving products that leverage AI, machine learning, or large language models (LLMs) to deliver meaningful customer or business outcomes.
  • Hands-on or strategic experience with LLM-powered product development, including tools and platforms such as Opus, Codex, or comparable AI systems, and an understanding of how to integrate them into real-world product workflows.
  • Identify opportunities where AI can meaningfully improve customer experience, internal efficiency, trust, personalization, discovery, or decision-making.
  • Partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Legal teams to ensure AI-driven products are scalable, secure, ethical, and compliant.
  • Stay ahead of industry trends in AI and emerging technologies, translating what's possible into pragmatic, high-impact product strategies.
  • Act as an internal thought leader, helping the organization understand how AI changes product development, team workflows, and competitive advantage.

About you

• Experience
  • 10+ years in Product Management; strong track record building consumer-facing products.
  • 5+ years managing people, including leaders; experience running multi-disciplinary product and design teams.
  • E-commerce experience required.
  • Marketplace experience highly desired (liquidity dynamics, supply/demand, trust & safety).
  • Prior VP-level (or equivalent) leadership in high-growth, high-complexity environments.
  • Experience leading or partnering on AI-driven or data-intensive products strongly preferred
• Skills & Competencies
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across product lines and business units at senior levels.
  • Mastery of long-term product strategy across multiple domains.
  • Strong understanding of customer journeys, behavioral insights, and product economics.
  • Deep fluency in data-driven decision-making and experimentation.
  • Ability to evaluate and apply emerging technologies - including AI - through a customer- and value-first lens.
  • Exceptional communication and alignment-building skills.
  • Proven ability to attract, retain, and develop top product and design talent
• Leadership Behaviors
  • Leads across multiple product areas with broad organizational impact.
  • Provides clarity and direction amid ambiguity; sets long-term strategic direction.
  • Owns outcomes and KPIs across domains.
  • Influences company-wide prioritization and strategic shifts.
  • Represents Product internally and externally as a thought leader, including on the responsible and innovative use of AI

Pursuant to the various pay transparency laws/acts, the pay range is $250,000 to $300,000 annually, plus opportunities for benefits (e.g., medical, dental), equity and discretionary bonuses. Compensation is dependent on geography and may vary.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.